On Wed, 16 Oct, at 03:19:39PM, Matthew Garrett wrote: > On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 02:51:00PM +0100, Matt Fleming wrote: > > > + Many EFI machines have buggy implementations of the UpdateCapsule() > > + runtime service. This option will enable code that may not function > > + correctly with your firmware. > > Where by "May not function correctly" you mean "May crash the system"?
Bingo. > I'm a little uneasy having this run by default if enabled, even if it's > disabled by default in the config. What would be the canonical way to enable this feature then? Have a file along the lines of /sys/kernel/debug/capsule_enable, where a user would be required to, echo 1 > /sys/kernel/debug/capsule_enable to turn on the functionality? -- Matt Fleming, Intel Open Source Technology Center -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
